Back to 1983 to Become a Ten-Thousand-Yuan Household

The central event: Chen Qingshan opens his eyes in 2026, lying in a hospital bed, and finds himself back in his family home in 1983. Broken tiles, mud walls, windows pasted over with newspaper. His mother, Liu Guixiang, brings him a bowl of watery sweet potato porridge, clear enough to see his reflection in, and calls him to eat. He touches his face: no age spots, no tubes, and the flesh and bones of a twenty-six-year-old. Then he looks at his mother. Her hair is black, her back straight, and she has yet to be ravaged by the illness that left her so frail in his previous life. He throws his arms around her, tears streaming uncontrollably.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.